Manualisation by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017

It is part of the "Manualisation" field in which the artist is working since 1996 and the fourth
official series of the field that already in the past had inspired and was redone by many people from the fashion and artworld.

Among them in 2015 the french designer Jacquemus, who made in 2015 an entire collection based on Bienieks
artwork that had a huge success on the Paris Fashion Week 2015. One year later the Caribbean
fashion designer Cecilia Devana wrote that her collection was inspired by Bieniek, and in 2017 the dazed & confused and 032c
magazine fashion photographer Maxime Ballesteros has published a book called "les absents" that shows his work based on Bieniek's
original artwork.

The sujet of this artworks are black hands that mostly come from behind to surrender or embrace a person or a figure.

The impression of the artworks is often described as surrealistic but also as claustrophobic or even creepy.

"Manualisation" is the latest series of the "Manualisation" field by the artist.

The first first photography of the "Manualisation" series was made on the 14th december 2017. The model was Kaja Stech from Vienna. A few days later stood Antonia von Stockhausen from Berlin in front of Bieniek's
Kamera, and was the model for futher photographs from the series.